Haruma

A pink swirl painted onto his face and deep-set black eyes kept almost always closed set Haruma apart. He stands tall and lean at nearly two meters, slicks his blond hair straight back, and keeps to a wrinkled white shirt, black trousers, and boots. Golden triangular earrings hang at his ears, and a brown belt strung with four holders keeps his iron shot-put balls close at hand.

An easy calm defines Haruma, who orders a glass of mineral water inside a diner packed with assassins and politely asks that a JAA executive come see Slur. A caring streak surfaces too: he passes a rattled executive a sports drink, tells him to breathe deep and unwind, and even lifts the man's gun away so the others hold their fire. He roots for Toramaru to keep sharpening her skills after she spars with Gaku. Beneath the manners lies a rigid code, since he reasons that his sheer talent would make plain killing unfair, so he chains himself to the rules of various sports to drag a fight down toward his rival's level, a habit he calls killing sportsmanship. He honors those self-set limits so fully that after granting Shin a loss he will not kill him, no matter his fury, because that would spit on the rules.

Haruma assembles his whole style from ball games and field events, driven by his beliefs about how a kill should look; his repertoire covers hurling the javelin and throwing the discus, spiking a volleyball, bowling, booting a soccer ball, tossing an American football, and slinging a handball. His power runs high, letting him plow through packs of assassins, loft a cast-iron shot-put ball skyward without strain, and burst free of iron chains, and Shishiba likens his might to Hyo's. Durability keeps pace: he absorbs minigun rounds fired point-blank into his head and chest without a scratch, takes a strike from Shin's special gauntlet, and even after Shin bursts his eardrums and ruins his balance he keeps swinging and walks off. His arsenal is four shot-put balls he treats as sporting gear, once serving one like a volleyball to punch a hole through a diner and blow the upper body off an assassin in one stroke, and during the museum raid he unfolds a collapsible javelin-shaped pole in a bid to kill Taro Sakamoto.